Spanish fashion retailer Inditex, which owns Zara stores, says its net profit rose by 5 per cent in 2014 following a surge in sales.
The company said Wednesday that profit for February 2014 through January 2015 rose to 2.5 billion euros ($2.7 billion)...

Bill Gates, with an eye-popping net worth of nearly $80 billion, has retained his title of the world’s richest person.
According to Forbes, which released its 2015 billionaires list Monday, there are now a record 1,826 billionaires worldwide,...

The world's richest person got even richer this year.
Forbes said Monday that Bill Gates's net worth rose to $79.2 billion in 2015 from $76 billion last year. That put him at the top of the magazine's list of the world's billionaires for the second...

Bill Gates, the founder of technology company Microsoft Corp., topped Forbes' 2015 list of the world's top billionaires for the second straight year. In 2013, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu was on top. He ranked second this time.
Forbes said it...

Bert Lance
Budget director under President Carter
Bert Lance, 82, a Georgia banker and ally of former President Carter who served as his first budget director before departing amid a high-profile investigation of his banking activities, died Thursday at his home in northwest Georgia, Gordon County deputy coroner Heath Derryberry said. Lance had struggled recently with unspecified health problems, though authorities were unsure of his cause of death.
Lance, a bear of a man with thick black hair, a...

The building housing the expansive Gucci store on Rodeo Drive has sold for more than $100 million to a Spanish fashion mogul.
Gucci, the famous upmarket Italian fashion house, is the sole tenant of the three-story building in the heart of the famed shopping district in Beverly Hills.
The sale was announced by real estate brokerages Cushman & Wakefield and Colliers International, which did not disclose the identity of the buyer or the price.
PHOTOS: Rodeo Drive over the years Real estate experts...